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Maria de Jesus Quiej-Alvarez, the 23-month-old Guatemalan girl who was born joined at the head to her twin, has completed follow-up care in Los Angeles and is expected to leave the hospital on Saturday, officials said.
A spokeswoman for the University of California's Mattel Children's Hospital said on Friday that the girl will be staying with a local family and will not return to Guatemala immediately.
Her sister, Maria Teresa, continues to recover in hospital from surgery a week ago to place a new tube in her head to handle excess brain fluid and a nutrition tube in her stomach.
Her doctors said earlier this week that it will be some time before the long-term results of that surgery are known.
The girls were flown to the United States on May 22 after both experienced health problems in Guatemala.
Maria de Jesus returned to UCLA with her sister because she suffered a convulsion, but doctors said the fever-related convulsion was not unusual and had been properly treated in Guatemala.
The sisters, born in a poor Guatemalan village with the tops of their heads fused and their faces tilted in opposite directions, were separated at the UCLA hospital last August in a dangerous 22-hour operation.
The twins returned to their native country in January. Their parents did not accompany them on the trip back to the United States.
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Revision date: 12 December 2007
Last revised by Amalia K. Gagarina, M.S., R.D.
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